WVC 38 - 3 - 4
§38-3-4. Abstracts of judgments; damages or penalty for failure
of clerk or justice to deliver.
The clerk of every court of this state shall, without delay,
make out and deliver a duly certified abstract of every judgment
rendered by such court, and every justice of the peace shall,
without delay, make out and deliver a duly certified abstract of
every judgment rendered by him or by any other justice, the
docket of which judgment is in his possession and under his
control, to any person interested therein who may demand the
same, and pay or tender the fee therefor, in which abstract shall
be stated: (a) The names in full of the plaintiff or plaintiffs,
and the defendant or defendants, as they appear in the papers and
proceedings in the cause, and if the defendants are sued as
partners, the individual names of such defendants, and also the
partnership name shall be stated; (b) the amount of the judgment
and the amount of the costs, stating each separately; (c) the
value of the specific property (if any) recovered by it, and the
damages, if any, for its detention; (d) the date of the judgment
and the court in which, or the justice by whom, the judgment was
rendered. Any clerk or justice who shall fail to deliver such
abstract as herein required shall, together with the sureties in
his official bond, be liable to the person injured by such
failure for the amount of his injury, or such injured person may,
at his option, recover fifty dollars from such clerk or justice.

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